Undifferentiated (embryonal) sarcoma of the liver: Combination treatment by surgery and chemotherapy

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1419-1423

  Kim, Dae Yeon ^a   Kim, Ki Hong ^a   Jung, Sung Eun ^a   Lee, Seong Cheol ^a   Park, Kwi Won ^a   Kim, Woo Ki ^a  

^a Seoul National University Children's Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Combined therapy; Pediatric liver tumor; Undifferentiated embryonal sarcoma

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; VINCRISTINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL MASS; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER THERAPY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER SARCOMA; MALE; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND LOOK SURGERY; SEPSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; WEIGHT REDUCTION; CASE REPORT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TUMOR; MESENCHYMOMA; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHILD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MESENCHYMOMA; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036788147     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jpsu.2002.35404     Document Type: Article

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